CARPE CONSENSUS: Tech Hype Cycles and Crypto’s Greater Narrative
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🗓️ 1 June 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Tim Tully of Zelcore explains what challenges crypto companies are facing this year as funding for tech tips away from blockchain and into AI.
On “Carpe Consensus,” hosts Ben Schiller, Danny Nelson and Cam Thompson tackle the latest crypto debates, from the politicization of crypto to the future of NFTs.
- [2:18] Inside the Desk: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis spoke about Bitcoin in announcing his 2024 presidential campaign. Does this mark a tipping point into the crypto industry’s politicization in the U.S.?
- [11:10] Tim Tully, CEO of wallet company Zelcore, analyzes the current narrative cycle for wallet security and adoption, and whether AI funding might be eating crypto’s dwindling venture capital.
- [28:37] Cam’s Corner: The legendary Formula 1 is the latest to step into NFTs, this time with an NFT-based ticketing experience.
“Carpe Consensus” is executive produced by Jared Schwartz and produced and edited by Eleanor Pahl.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Carpe Consensus. |
| 0:11.0 | Join hosts Ben Schiller, Danny Nelson, and Cam Thompson as they seize the world of crypto. |
| 0:22.8 | Hello and welcome to Carpe Consensus. This is a podcast from the Coindex Podcast Network, and I'm |
| 0:28.3 | Ben Shiller and the features editor here at this company. And Danny Nelson is here as well. Hi, Danny. |
| 0:33.8 | Hello, hello. And Cameron Thompson is here. She was a Web 3 reporter here. Hi, Cam. |
| 0:38.3 | Hey, how's it going? It's going good. So are you guys into softball? I am. Big time. |
| 0:44.6 | I'd play. Well, the big news out of CoinDess this week was nothing to do with Crypto. It's that |
| 0:50.5 | CoinDess now has a softball team and we are taking on the might of many other |
| 0:54.8 | publications around the city, including New York Magazine and Vanity Fair, and we have our |
| 0:59.4 | first upcoming games very soon. So are you excited about that, Denny? |
| 1:03.4 | Well, I would be if I was going to them, right? I live in Philadelphia. That this is in New York, |
| 1:08.0 | and as much as I want to make this upcoming game, I will not be able to. |
| 1:13.7 | My allegiances are with the Philadelphia Penn and Pencil Club, the Journalist Club of Philadelphia. |
| 1:19.8 | We have our own league. |
| 1:21.8 | Are you any good? |
| 1:22.8 | I get it done. |
| 1:24.1 | I'm one of the younger people on the team, so I really throw myself at the ball on them in the outfield. I end up with a lot of scabs and back pain. But I can it done. I'm one of the younger people on the team, so I really throw myself at the ball |
| 1:27.7 | on them in the outfield. I end up with a lot of scabs and back pain. But I can deal with it |
| 1:32.0 | better than the 60-year-olds can, at least for now. Yeah. So I heard from one of the Vanity Fair guys |
| 1:37.1 | this week, and he said that he thought that the crypto brides, which is us, coined as, will be quite good at softball. I don't know where they'd get that opinion. |
| 1:47.2 | Which interesting kind of comment, right? |
| 1:49.2 | Why would you think that a crypto bro would be good at softball? |
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